When her 19-year-old son took his life, Julie Green began a pilgrimage through the darkest lows of the soul to the brightest heights of the human spirit. In this book, she shares her journey of healing, from taking the heaviest first steps to relearning how to soar.
A Thousand Little Memories: A Mother's Brave Pilgrimage To Reclaim Joy after Traumatic Loss offers an inspiring story of a mother's resilience in the face of profound loss, guiding readers through their grief with compassion and courage. Julie's pilgrimage up the Mountains of Grief serves as a beacon of hope, helping readers to find their footing, navigate their own grieving process, and recreate their life after loss. Anyone who wants to heal can make the journey. This book is a comforting hand to hold as they make the climb to rediscover purpose and reclaim joy.
Written in four parts, A Thousand Little Memories guides readers up the four Mountains of Grief and into a life of wonder. Readers start on the Mountain of Shock, where they learn how to get through the overwhelming devastation right after loss. Next, they move up the Mountain of Hope, where they learn different healing modalities to process grief so authentic healing can begin. Third, they scale the Mountain of Recreation, where they tap their inner strength and give themselves permission to try life as a new self with a new purpose. And finally, the pilgrimage leads to the peak of the Mountain of Contribution, where authentic joy is found in living that purpose and using it to connect with community.
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By following Julie's example and implementing the proven techniques and methods she shares, readers will crest the Mountains of Grief to find serenity on the other side.
Fewer than 2% of Americans retire before age fifty. In Kelly Lorene's words, that is simply not okay.
If you are struggling to live your best life and build wealth for your future, Kelly has a question for you. What do you want that future to be? Because any build has to start with a blueprint.
In this part autobiography, part how-to masterpiece, Kelly Lorene, an interior designer and real estate investor who was able to retire at age 48, turns her keen designer's eye on her own story. She shares how she looks for beauty in all parts of life, keeps her aim on her goals, and builds wealth along the way. Within those stories, Kelly shares detailed tips, worksheets, and checklists for finding your purpose, designing your own dream, tackling value-adding home renovation projects, and building wealth in real estate investing.
It's a Lifestyle Thing will empower you to become confident in real estate and investing, creating your unique path to retire-and retire young. But first, Kelly will help you find beauty, purpose, and fulfillment, so you can define your dream and start building a life from your own blueprint. Because a dream life isn't just money or house: it's a lifestyle. Find your dream and design a life you love with It's a Lifestyle Thing.
You can run from your trauma, but anxiety and depression can run faster. They will catch up-trust me.
On the outside, Raquel had a charmed life. She was raised by a wonderful mother in a loving home, had two beautiful children, and married a man who took her around the world for a life of luxury. And yet, she couldn't sleep. Antidepressants had occupied the spaces in her medicine cabinet for years. Her friendships kept imploding, and her husband did not understand her bouts of moodiness or numbness. She always felt like something was missing, like she was meant for more.
No matter how good life got, Raquel wasn't truly happy. Until she looked within.
Something was missing, but it couldn't be found in the shops of Paris or under Japan's blossoming cherry trees. Raquel had suppressed a lifetime of trauma: from little things like the childhood slights of jealous siblings, to big things like the abuse she suffered in her first marriage and the desperate escape she was forced to make to save herself and her children. She had pushed it all down, willing herself to go on, to put her kids first, to never rock the boat. And now, she was sick.
Suppressed trauma is often the culprit of depression, anxiety, and illness. Many suffering from depression and anxiety change their lives and environments to try to be happy, but the solution to dissolving anxiety and depression is within.
Meant for More is an all-too-true telling of a woman's journey to find herself across a lifetime of delightful highs and disastrous lows. It is full of delicious stories and deep wisdom, including Raquel's 4-step Emotional Intelligence Formula that helped her become aware of her own suppression and get back in touch with her true self.
Like Raquel, you crave strength, joy, and love, but can't seem to find it. You know that something is missing. You are meant for more! Listen to that inner whisper, release the trauma you've been suppressing, and find the more you're meant for. It's been within you all along.